The Day After v. Threads and When the Wind Blows

[mongers]

Personally, I was always partial to On the Beach (original).

Yeah, saw that a year or so ago, it's a fine film. 

That was a time when Hollywood could confidently do political/topically controversial stuff, without peeing it's pants about the reaction.

[Syt]

Try Panic in Year Zero. Ed Anger recommended.

It's a cult classic.

[CountDeMoney]

By Dawn's Early Light was good.

Yuk. Only Rip Torn was good in it.

Rebecca DeMornay was still hot, Nicolas Coster was SAC, and Dale was Harpoon. 

You fucking strudel fuck.

Edit:  And James Earl Jones.  Strudel fuck.

[CountDeMoney]

Try Panic in Year Zero. Ed Anger recommended.

Frankie Avalon 

[derspiess]

By Dawn's Early Light was good.

My fave-rave WW3 flick.  I'd ride to the Apocalypse with Powers Boothe in a B-52 anytime.  STRAIGHT DOWN KARL MARX BOULEVARD  BYE BYE BABY BABUSHKAS

Anything with Powers Boothe is automatically good. 

Which is a segue into the ultimate 80s Cold War movie:  Red Dawn 

[MadImmortalMan]

Is it bad that I always get a twinge of wishing it were real when I watch these movies? I mean I obviously don't want it to happen, but there is an aspect to the whole society completely breaking down and I have to live on my wits part that is appealing to me. I also fantasize about being a colonist to a different planet for the same reason.

[crazy canuck]

Which is a segue into the ultimate 80s Cold War movie:  Red Dawn 

I saw a commercial for the remake - who is going to be invading now?

[CountDeMoney]

Is it bad that I always get a twinge of wishing it were real when I watch these movies? I mean I obviously don't want it to happen, but there is an aspect to the whole society completely breaking down and I have to live on my wits part that is appealing to me.

That's all well and good, but hope for an epidemic or zombies, where shit is still left around intact, instead of a nuclear war wasteland.  Jeez.

[Tonitrus]

By Dawn's Early Light was good.

Yuk. Only Rip Torn was good in it.

Rebecca DeMornay was still hot, Nicolas Coster was SAC, and Dale was Harpoon. 

You fucking strudel fuck.

Edit:  And James Earl Jones.  Strudel fuck.

Go easy on him...he just had childhood dreams of cutting off the head of the Soviet chicken. 

[CountDeMoney]

Go easy on him...he just had childhood dreams of cutting off the head of the Soviet chicken. 

  Rip Torn's character was a total psycho in that.  Must've worked for LeMay.

[Tonitrus]

I also approve of the film's fine portrayal of the Air Force, and that the douchebag move is done by the Army (Rip Torn). 

[derspiess]

Which is a segue into the ultimate 80s Cold War movie:  Red Dawn 

I saw a commercial for the remake - who is going to be invading now?

Chinese North Koreans

I'm not overly excited about it.

[derspiess]

Is it bad that I always get a twinge of wishing it were real when I watch these movies? I mean I obviously don't want it to happen, but there is an aspect to the whole society completely breaking down and I have to live on my wits part that is appealing to me. I also fantasize about being a colonist to a different planet for the same reason.

I know what you mean.  But once you have kids it stops

[crazy canuck]

Chinese North Koreans

I'm not overly excited about it.

That is terrible. 

[CountDeMoney]

I also approve of the film's fine portrayal of the Air Force, and that the douchebag move is done by the Army (Rip Torn). 

Amen, the Zoomies saved the world. 

Of course, it's the Navy with the theological conscience.  They read too much.